1 A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold -- good grace. 2 Rich and poor have met together, The Maker of them all [is] Jehovah. 3 The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished. 4 The end of humility [is] the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life. 5 Thorns -- snares [are] in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them. 6 Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it. 7 The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant [is] the borrower to the lender. 8 Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out. 9 The good of eye -- he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor. 10 Cast out a scorner -- and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease. 11 Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace [are] his lips, a king [is] his friend. 12 The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous. 13 The slothful hath said, `A lion [is] without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.' 14 A deep pit [is] the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there. 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him. 16 He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want.